Re: Aim or ICQ, other messengers?

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 11:19:51 MST

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    > AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ are very popular but don't inter-operate with each
    > other. There's also Jabber which is trying to promote its own open
    > standard, and there are others, such as Trillian, that attempt to provide a
    > common front end to access more than one service. A newcomer that I'm
    > watching is VeriChat, that attempts to provide full-time presence on
    > multiple IM services with client being on your mobile phone or wireless PDA.
    >
    > - Jef

    I've tried myJabber, which claims to provide gateway service to dogs-in-the-manger
    like AIM and MSN Messenger and ICQ. I didn't have great success with it.

    I've been using EFnet IRC for about 10 years. I don't expect it to catch on,
    but that's a feature as far as I am concerned...

    MMB

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